Huaguang Zhang was born in May, 1959. He received the Ph.D. degree in industrial automation from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 1991. He joined the Department of Automatic Control, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, in 1991, as a Post-Doctoral Fellow for two years, where he has been a Professor and the Head of the Institute of Electric Automation, School of Information Science and Engineering, since 1994. Dr. Zhang was a recipient of National Excellent Young Science Foundation Award in 2003. He was nominated as "Yangtze river scholars Distinguished Professor" by China Education Ministry in 2005. He was selected the first batch of the national “million talents project” outstanding talents. He was awarded China excellent postdoctoral, and received special government allowances from State Council. He was awarded the "national model teacher" by the Ministry of National Education in 2014, and "National Advanced Worker " by the Party central committee and State Council in 2015. He has been served as a visiting professor to go to America, England, South Korea and Hong Kong for cooperation in scientific research. His current research interests include fuzzy control, stochastic control, neural networks-based control, nonlinear control, and their industrial applications.

He has been severing as an associate Editor of Automatic and IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, respectively. In addition, he has been serving as Fellow of IEEE Society since 2003. He has authored and coauthored over 400 journal and conference papers, more than 400 papers were indexed by SCI、EI、ISTP. He has published seven books on fuzzy adaptive control and chaotic control, and a national textbook. He has won the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young, the National Natural Science Fund of China Scholars, National High-tech R&D Program (863 Program), etc., and co-invented more than 20 patents.